• The Berenice pet cemetery is a pet cemetery in Berenike, Egypt, dating from the 1st-2nd century CE. It contains the remains of hundreds of cats, dogs,...
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    Berenice (Ancient Greek: Βερενίκη, Bereníkē) is the Ancient Macedonian form of the Attic Greek name Φερενίκη Pherenikē, which means "bearer of victory"...
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    Berenice Troglodytica, also called Berenike (Greek: Βερενίκη) or Baranis, is an ancient seaport of Egypt on the western shore of the Red Sea. It is situated...
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    Berenice II Euergetis (267 or 266 – 221 BCE; Greek: Βερενίκη Ευεργέτις, Berenikē Euergetis, "Berenice the Benefactress") was queen regnant of Cyrenaica...
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    Berenice or Berenike (Ancient Greek: Βερενίκη) was a Greek city in the region of ancient Epirus, near current Preveza. It was founded by Pyrrhus II of Epirus...
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    Berenice became the mother of Arsinoe II, Philotera, and a son, Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Her son Ptolemy II was recognized as his father's heir in preference...
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    an early marriage (they are not among the fours sons of Seuthes III and Berenike attested at the end of his reign). The inscription, however, predates the...
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  • Seleukid Empire, Cambridge University Press, 2004 A. Coșkun, "Laodike I, Berenike Phernophoros, Dynastic Murders, and the Outbreak of the Third Syrian War...
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  • Berenice (Ancient Greek: Βερενίκη, romanized: Berenikē) (c.275 BC–246 BC), also called Berenice Phernophorus ("Dowry Bearer") or Berenice Syra, was an...
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  • is now taking a more than friendly interest. Rome installs Berenike's nephew Alexander II as the new King, much to her dismay; she refuses to consummate...
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    and Akrotiri. Excavations dated to the end of the 1st century AD from Berenike, a Roman-Egyptian port-town on the Red Sea coast, demonstrate that vervet...
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  • 653 Berenike is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 27 November 1907 by Joel Hastings Metcalf at Taunton, Massachusetts. It is named after Berenice II of...
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    irrigate land, and to supply water for the port of Berenice Troglodytica (Berenike). The fortifications served to protect the well from desert sand. These...
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    Fletcher 2008, p. 353. Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd (2013) [2012]. "Cleopatra V Berenike III". In Bagnall, Roger S.; Brodersen, Kai; Champion, Craige B.; Erskine...
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    the Alexandrians deposed Ptolemy XII and installed "his eldest daughter, Berenike IV, and as co-ruler recalled Cleopatra V Tryphaena from 10 years' exile...
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    of the Buddha, the Berenike Buddha, made locally and dated to the 2nd century CE, was discovered in the Egyptian harbour of Berenike. Numerous hoards of...
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  • Berenice also known as Berenike (Greek: Βερενίκη; fl. second half of 3rd century BC and first half of 2nd century BC), was a Greek Princess from Asia Minor...
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    University Press. p. 48. ISBN 9780198787273. Sidebotham, Steven E. (2019). Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route. Berkeley, California, United States...
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    Roman Egypt (redirect from Aegyptus II)
    1st/2nd-century Parian marble statue of Anubis (Gregorian Egyptian Museum) The Berenike Buddha, discovered in Berenice, Egypt, 2nd century CE. 2nd/3rd-century...
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    bbc.co.uk BBC World News, 11 June 2006. Web [1] Steven E. Sidebotham. Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route, pp 191. University of California...
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    the original Pella. The town is said to have been called Pihilum[when?]. Berenike in Greek, often Latinised to Berenice, is another name of Pella from the...
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  • succeeded Djedet as the capital of Lower Egypt's 16th nome of Kha (Herodotus (II, 166)). The two cities are only several hundred meters apart. Ptolemy also...
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    Julia Berenice and sometimes spelled Bernice (Greek: Βερενίκη or Βερνίκη, Bereníkē or Berníkē; 28 – after 81), was a Jewish client queen of the Roman Empire...
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    ISBN 978-1-405-17935-5. Llewellyn-Jones, Lloyd (2013) [2012]. "Cleopatra V Berenike III". In Bagnall, Roger S.; Brodersen, Kai; Champion, Craige B.; Erskine...
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    Alexandrians deposed Ptolemy XII Auletes and installed "his eldest daughter, Berenike IV, and as co-ruler recalled Cleopatra V Tryphaena from 10 years' exile...
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  • Roman fortlet (praesidium) in Egypt that lay along the road from Koptos to Berenike in the Eastern Desert. It corresponds to the site of Khasm al-Minayh in...
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    up in a bun at the back of the head. A trademark style of Arsinoe II and Berenike II, the style had fallen from fashion for almost two centuries until...
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  • yet king, was the son of Seuthes III by a marriage earlier than that to Berenike (since their four sons did not include a Cotys or a Reboulas). Building...
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  • Callimachus’ Iambi "Callimachus’ Doric Graces (15 G.-P. = AP 5.146)" "Did Any Berenike Attend the Isthmian Games? A Literary Perspective on Posidippus 82 AB"...
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    century CE. Indian Museum, Kolkata. Standing Buddha from Gandhara. The Berenike Buddha, discovered in Berenice, Egypt, 2nd century CE. Gandharan Buddha...
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